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DigiDave writes "A time honored tradition on St Patty's Day is to drink green beer. But some breweries go out of their way to make sure that the brewskies we drink are always green, by using environmentally friendly brewing methods. The makers of Fat Tire, for example, use a cogeneration process that involves anaerobic bacteria turning wastewater into methane gas for power."
St. Paddy's was yesterday.
St Patty?
Maybe someone is still struggling after a few too many beers?
I'm not sure I would call this a time honoured tradition either - I'd never even heard of green beer until I went to the US. I'd never seen it either in Ireland or any of the Irish (and I mean real Irish pubs in Kilburn owned by Irish landlords full of first generation Irish people or Irish people working temporarily in London) pubs in the UK I've been to on St Patricks day.
While the mass produced crap deserves it's repuation as being better after urination than before
I brew my own but also drink that "mass produced crap". I used to be a beer snob, but over the years, I've learn that that "crap" has alot going for it.
-I can get it anywhere...any country, any state, any town I'm in, and I don't even need to ask. I know they have it.
-Usually, I'm really just looking for something cold and wet.
-Usually, the beer is just an accessory to the journey; it's not the destination. I'm more interesting in what's going on around me.
-It is still booze. After a few drinks, it doesn't matter what you are drinking.
and most importantly...
-Mass produced beers don't attract a gaggle of shallow buffoons that judge people by what they drink.
How is this a bonus? Why bother going anywhere if you aren't going to try something new? The first thing I ask for when I go into a bar/pub while traveling is if they have any local brews.
-Usually, I'm really just looking for something cold and wet.
Drink water.
-Usually, the beer is just an accessory to the journey; it's not the destination. I'm more interesting in what's going on around me.
Drink Water
-It is still booze. After a few drinks, it doesn't matter what you are drinking.
This doesn't jive with the your previous point of it's the journey not the destination. If the point is just to get drunk, do a few shots of Everclear and be done with it.
-Mass produced beers don't attract a gaggle of shallow buffoons that judge people by what they drink.
That is really your best point and it really isn't that good. The fact is that you can make judgements about people based upon their actions. If you're drinking something like Bud or Miller and that ilk, I can infer that you either are just drinking to get drunk, you have poor taste in beer, or marketing holds too much sway over you. Poor taste in beer is really the kindest choice out of the three and the one I generally attribute to people. I don't make many other judgements beyond that and I'd agree that people that do are annoying. Although quite a few people drinking the mass produced stuff are more than happy to be shallow buffons that judge people by what they aren't drinking too.